1st Edition

Reframing Institutional Logics Substance, Practice and History

By Alistair Mutch Copyright 2019
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

How are we to characterise the context in which organisations operate? The notion that organisational activity is shaped by institutional logics has been influential but it presents a number of problems. The criteria by which institutions are identified, the conflation of institutions with organisations, the enduring nature of those institutions and an exaggerated focus on change are all concerns... Read more

Introduction: What’s In A Name?

  1. Critical Realism And Social Theory
  2. Institutions
  3. Bodies, Persons And History
  4. Substance
  5. Practices
  6. Logics
  7. Materiality And Identity
  8. Limits Of Logics

Biography

Alistair Mutch is Professor of Information and Learning at Nottingham Trent University. He has published widely on organisation theory and history. Educated at secondary level in both England and Scotland, he obtained a joint honours LLB in jurisprudence and history from the University of Dundee in 1976. Exposure to the distinctive educational, religious and legal traditions of Scotland, which has continued to influence his later work, was followed by the study of history at the University of Manchester, from where he obtained both an MA and a PhD, the latter being for a study of the nineteenth century rural history of Lancashire. Following ten years’ experience as an accountant with British Telecom, he joined NTU in 1990, where he has worked ever since. His Religion and National Identity: Governing the Church of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century (Edinburgh, 2015) brought a novel and innovative approach to the study of religious governance practices, one that has implications for the study of the relationship between religion and economic activity.